Word: precisionism
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STILL, HISTORICAL PRECISION and a thorough consideration of where the evidence is coming from give Mack's work strength. In his preface, Mack says he undertook the Lawrence project with a prejudice in favor of a much more psycho-analytical explanation of his subject; but the more he discovered the...
But that's underestimating how much the Crimson stickmen wanted this game, and in the second half they charged out and came within a whisker of taking it. In the first 30 minutes, they had had trouble getting the ball out of the Harvard end. Brown passed the ball well...
Brush and Ink: the Heinz Gotze Collection of Japances Art, at the Fogg through June 4. Gotze's aim in assembling the collection he said, was to find examples that would illuminate what is special and different about East Asian art. Indeed, this small but stellar exhibit questions some of...
Certainly anyone can respond to recycled banalities masquerading as conversation, an edgy concern with appearances, the nose sniff of gossip and the binocular gaze at just who is where on the money-and-status escalator. Ayckbourn has honed this knowledge to hairbreadth comic precision.
The Chinese, for example, managed to predict the Manchurian quake with such extraordinary precision that the big jolt came only a few hours after their warning. As a result, says MIT Geologist Frank Press, more than a million people were evacuated from their vulnerable homes and tens of thousands of...